HY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 40: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mikhail Gorbachev, Glasnost
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By the 1980s, the american population was aging and more people were living in the. The led to the emergence of a new politically conservative movement. Ronald reagan was a neoconservative who opposed a big government, supported the. "common man"s" rights, and opposed favoritism for minorities. Democrats as a party who supported big government and only supported minorities. Like neoconservatives, he also supported free-market capitalism, supported anti-soviet policies, opposed liberal welfare programs and affirmative-action policies, and he called for the reassertion of traditional values of individualism and the centrality of family. Ronald reagan overwhelmingly won the election of 1980, beating democratic president. The iranian"s released the hostages on reagan"s inauguration day, january 20, 1981, after 444 days of captivity. Reagan assembled a conservative cabinet when he took office. A major goal of reagan was to reduce the size of the government by shrinking the federal budget and cutting taxes.
